Definition of Tubulose

1. a. Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

Definition of Tubulose

1. tubular [adj] - See also: tubular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubulose

tubulipores
tubulization
tubuloacinar gland
tubuloalveolar
tubuloalveolar gland
tubulocyst
tubulocystic
tubulodermoid
tubulogenesis
tubulointerstitial
tubulointerstitial nephritis
tubulointerstitium
tubuloneogenesis
tubuloracemose
tubulose (current term)
tubulous
tubulure
tubulures
tubulus
tubulus contortus
tubulus rectus
tubulus renalis contortus
tubulus renalis rectus
tubulus seminifer rectus
tubus
tubus digestorius
tubus medullaris

Literary usage of Tubulose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Differs from the preceding in the generally larger leaves, nearly exactly tubulose in the upper part, and curved back when moistened, in the short pedicel ..."

2. The Horticultural Register by Sir Joseph Paxton, Joseph Harrison (1834)
"Trollius has nine linear flat bent bodies, perforated at the base on the inside; Isopyrum has five equal tubulose short nectaries, with a trilobate mouth ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"Malo receptacle sessile, disciform. Loculi of the female receptacle tubulose, 1-fruited. ... Loculi tubulose, 1-valved, fleshy. ..."

4. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"... frond tubulose, simple or branched, filiform-compressed. Varying in size. Sometimes compressed and sometimes terete, obscurely green. la leal and bays. ..."

5. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"... iu a deltoid panicle of drooping tubulose flower» which are green, ... and handsome tubulose five-angled, bright red flowers; India, Darjeeling; Kew. ..."

6. Young Lady's Book of Botany (1840)
"Herbs with composite flowers, consisting of many tubulose, ... placed on a common receptacle : the florets of the disk tubulose, of the margin ligulate. ..."

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